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| 47. | Warner, op. cit., 105–106. |
| 48. | U.S. Dept of State, telegrams: from Paris 4767 of 2 May 1955; from Saigon 5074 of 5 May 1955; also, Shaplen, op. cit., 121–125; Bain, op. cit., 118–119. |
| 49. | Ibid., SECTO 8 of May 8, 1955. |
| 50. | Ibid., TEDUL 2 of May 8, 1955. |
| 51. | Ibid., TEDUL 9 of May 9, 1955. |
| 52. | Shaplen, op. cit., 127; Warner, op. cit., 101. |
| 53. | Ibid., 103. |
| 54. | NSC 5809, 2 April 1958, and Progress Report of 28 May 1958. |
| 55. | U.S. Congress, Senate, Situation in Vietnam, Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs (86th Congress, First Session, July 30–31, 1959), 171. |
| 56. | Kahin and Lewis, op. cit., 110–115; Tillman Durdin, "Red Activities Up in Vietnam ," New York Times (April 13, 1959), 5; U.S. Senate, Background Information…, op. cit., 5; CIA, NSC Briefing for 16 August 1958; U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam, "Country Statement," narratives for 21 January 1957, 15 July 1957, 22 January 1958; CIA, Current Intelligence Weekly Review, 15 and 16 August 1958; U.S. Dept of State, Saigon 268 of 13 August 1958, and Saigon 278 of 14 August 1958; CIA, Saigon CS-3366824 of 14 August 1958. |
| 57. | Kahin and Lewis, op. cit., 111. |
| 58. | Ibid., Warner , op. cit., 104–105; DA Pamphlet 550–105, 819, 845, 1036; Scigliano, op. cit., 89; Shaplen, op. cit., U.S. Dept of State "The Communist Subversive Threat to the Treaty Area" (Office of Intelligence Research, October 24, 1956), Annex , "Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos," 15. |
| 59. | Report of the Saigon Military Mission, op. cit., 22–26; Shaplen, op. cit., 135–137. |
| 60. | Ibid; Report of the SMM, op. cit., 43–44; CIA, NSC Briefing for 12 May 1955 on "South Vietnam." |
| 61. | David Hotham , "South Vietnam--Shaky Bastion," New Republic (November 25, 1957), 15. |
| 62. | Memorandum for the Record by Colonel Edward G. Lansdale, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations, dated 15 July 1958, subject: "Pacification in Vietnam"; also, Report of the SMM, op. cit., 24–25; Scigliano, op. cit., William A. Nighswonger, Rural Pacification in Vietnan (New York: Praeger, 1966), 35–37. |
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